5. The sooner the better.

8. Trump will declare a crisis to get his wall funding.

Then McConnell will send along Pelosi's funding legislation which he will sign. After that it will turn out Trump can't get his wall funding by declaring a crisis. He will blame liberal judges. Not his fault. Not like he caved in or anything.

19. Only controversial...

because Democrats tend toward contrarianism. How could the Democratic leadership be vehemently against this when they lobbied for it 5 years ago. It is the president only and their wish to delay until there is a democrat in the White House.

23. Alerted on,voted to leave but think it is in pretty bad taste if it implies what I think it does.

25. Terrible taste, in fact!

Not against the ToS, although the alert doesn't surprise me: the alert system has virtually nothing to do with the rules any more. I wouldn't have been upset if it had been hidden (I haven't had a post hidden in years). It was meant as nothing more than humor, but certainly very black* humor indeed. Genuine apologies if it truly offended!

24. He should go ahead and

declare the national emergency, then make the request to Congress to provide the funding for the emergency in the budget. Needs to wait a little bit before pulling the trigger on the funding while changing the tone from Trump's wall to illegal invasion.